Atlantic Center Expansion To Begin

August 25, 1985

Construction is scheduled to begin in late August on the outdoor amphitheater at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach. The theater is the first phase of a $1.5 million performing arts complex planned for the arts center, where students in the visual and performing arts study in fellowship programs with master artists. The amphitheater will seat 225 people on tiers rising in a semi-circle before an octagonal stage. It will allow the center to include dance along with the visual arts, music and theater in its artist-in-residence programs, said Holly Bivens, assistant director. The theater, which is designed by Schweizer Associates of Orlando, is scheduled to be completed in October.